The last reactor at Three Mile Island is shutting down

On Wednesday, power company Exelon said that it would be closing
the single reactor that it operates on Three Mile Island by
September 30.

Three Mile Island (TMI) is notorious for its role as the site of
the United States’ first commercial power plant accident in 1979.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was not able to correlate the
accident to any deaths or ill health effects in the Middletown,
Penn., area, but the threat galvanized environmentalists against
nuclear power and led to sweeping regulatory reforms in throughout
the nation.